Day 12: One Scene Down
I finished the first scene today...and then some. Which is not to say I wrote any of the second scene, or any scene after the first one. No, I mean to say that I wrote too much of scene one.
It is said that, on average, one page of a screenplay (in the rigidly enforced format of the Hollywood Screenplay template) equals one minute of screen time. I don't use that screenplay format for my radio serials, I use my one of my own devising. But the formula is about the same--I've got it down to about a page per minute. If I give characters any big huge paragraphs of dialogue (as the narrators used to in my old show, sometimes) it can be more than a minute per page. But on average, it seems to be right.
Well, as I learned recently, any scene over 2 pages is a long one. Most scenes are under 2 pages long. And with 10 scenes in my outline, that's really what I should be aiming for, in a 22 minute show. But here, I am, first scene finished...and it's three pages long. I'm already running over.
So, the new idea is to try to keep the script under 30 pages total, and then I can cut it down afterwards.
STILL! I finished the first scene of the show! That's four characters introduced! Sort of.
Let's hope I can get further, later in the weekend.
It is said that, on average, one page of a screenplay (in the rigidly enforced format of the Hollywood Screenplay template) equals one minute of screen time. I don't use that screenplay format for my radio serials, I use my one of my own devising. But the formula is about the same--I've got it down to about a page per minute. If I give characters any big huge paragraphs of dialogue (as the narrators used to in my old show, sometimes) it can be more than a minute per page. But on average, it seems to be right.
Well, as I learned recently, any scene over 2 pages is a long one. Most scenes are under 2 pages long. And with 10 scenes in my outline, that's really what I should be aiming for, in a 22 minute show. But here, I am, first scene finished...and it's three pages long. I'm already running over.
So, the new idea is to try to keep the script under 30 pages total, and then I can cut it down afterwards.
STILL! I finished the first scene of the show! That's four characters introduced! Sort of.
Let's hope I can get further, later in the weekend.